BNP Paribas has named Yasser Henda global head of export finance.

He succeeds Olivier Paul, who has taken another function within BNP’s corporate banking segment in Europe, GTR learns.

Henda has been deputy global head of export finance at the bank for the past five years, and was previously head of export finance in the Middle East and North Africa and director of energy project finance, still at BNP Paribas.